31 August 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

I've been reading SEO and making articles for these days. Did you ever applied "Viral Marketing" to you web sites? Viral Marketing is a great way to get many visitors.  Viral marketing is an intentional advertising campaign that provides content in one of many forms (video, pictures, text, games, etc..), in which people will want to share it to the other people.  It's "viral" because successful viral marketing campaigns spread rapidly from person to person.  The campaign can either be directly or indirectly related to the service or brand that you want to promote, meaning that the viral content can have something or nothing to do with the service/brand.

26 July 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

Joomla! has 2 folder location in your configuration. One of them is tmp folder and the other is logs folder. You can view the the default setting for the tmp folder on the screenshot. The screenshot is showing what currently you have. It's not a good setting

What do these folders do for you?

• Joomla! temporary folder (tmp folder) - The extensions that you install is firstly uploaded and extracted to this folder
• Joomla! log folder (logs folder): Joomla! related activity is recorded thus an attacker can find what vulnerabilities may reside within your site.
  Read more

  Add comment (0)

  Hits: 336

29 June 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in how long your visitor stays and explores your site. You can ask yourself this. Do you stay long on web sites which has tons of links on main page? What do you do as soon as you open a web site?

User are coming to your web site to read your content. When they complete the reading your content , They start look around to find any other page that interests them.

Importance of Layout and Navigation

A clean layout and a good navigation and using a lot of white space for your site enhances its looks. Try to keep the focus on your content. Your content must be findable easly. The visitors are focused on your content

Here are a few important tips to make your Joomla! web site more user friendly :

22 June 2010
Posted in Tips and Tricks

Have you ever tried to develop a Joomla template or Have you ever tried to edit a Joomla! template?

If you have tried to do one of the things above, You will probably need to edit the Joomla! template css files

I will try to explain the Joomla! template css classes and I will also share my small secret how i edit a J! template css files

The location of Joomla Template CSS

The name of ALL Joomla template css files is (mostly) template_css.css or style.css or template.css and the location file is /joomla-root/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/css/ folder.

One of the powerful side of Joomla! is has many template developers. You will have well designed Joomla template css. Most template developers are using more than 1 css files. Because of this, Do not expect to find only one css in folder . You will mostly find 5+ css files inside it